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A. PETERSON. Carpet Exhibitor. Nd. 231,680. Patented Aug. 31,1880.

PLPETERS. PHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

NiTE STATES PATENT FFICE.

ADOLPHUS PETERSON, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR OF ONEHALF OF HIS RIGHT TO SILAS O. OROFT, OF NEYV YORK, N. Y.

CARPET-EXHIBITOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 231,680, dated August 31, 1880.

Application filed June 17, 1880. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that l, ADOLPHUS PETERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carpet-Exhibitors, of which the following is a specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing the side mirror moved inward. Fig. 2 is a sectional side view through the line 00 w of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a plan view. Fig. 4 is a plan showin g a modified form for the side-mirror suspension. Fig. 5 is a sectional. view of the same. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view, showing the traveling movement for the mirrors. Fig. 7 is a detail showing the device for adjusting mirrors. Fig. 8 is a side view of the adjusting nut O in Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is a perspective view of the plate Q in Fig. 7.

The object of this invention is to construct a device for exhibiting samples of carpets or other goods in such manner that samples of any width may be rolled in either direction across the plane of the table, and in having two independent mirrors hinged to cross-pieces arranged to slide on ways at right angles to each other, so that either of them may, when the other is in its outermost position, be easily adjusted to or from a rigid rectangular mirror to suit any width of carpet or other goods, and when exhibiting a border or stair-carpet the true effect is produced by laying the side mirror horizontally, so that the pattern is only multiplied in length and not in width.

in the case here presented the various samples of carpet, oil-cloth, or other patterns of goods to be exhibited arestitched or otherwise securely fastened upon a continuous piece of canvas, A, so that the edges of said samples may not ravel or turn upward and catch while traveling through the exhibitor. The said sheet of samples has one end attached to the roller A and its opposite end attached to the roller B. Each of the said rollers has a gearwheel, 0 O, rigidly attached to one or both their extremities. These gear-wheels are not set on the same line with each other, in order that only one of the rollers may be acted upon at one time by an intermediate gear-wheel, D.

This gear-wheel has its journal made longer than its box, so as to allow it to he slipped back or forth to engage with either gear, according to the direction it may be required for the pattern to travel.

The table E, over which the samples travel, is an unbroken plane on a line between the upper surfaces of the two rollers F F, so as to insure the most perfect evenness to the sample, as any wave or unevenness would produce a shadow and destroy the efiect in multiplying.

The front mirror, G, is hinged to the cross piece H, which has a tube, I, attached to each of its lower extremities on the under side. Through these tubes and the frame the rods J J are inserted, and, being secured in position by nuts K K, serve as rails for the crosspiece H to slide on.

The side mirror, L, is also hung to a piece, M, which has on its under side runners N N, which run on angular platetracks N, one of which is fixed on the crosspieee H of the mirror G and the other on the cross-piece; H, supporting the back mirror.

It will be seen, when the mirror G is in the position shown in Fig. 1, the mirror L can be moved inward toward the side of the fixed mirror opposite to it, as shown in said Fig. 1.

It will also be seen that when the mirror L and its cross'piece M are drawn outward to the position shown in Fig. 6, so as to leave the runner N clear of the track N, the mirror G can be moved inward toward the fixed mirror G. As both the cross-pieces run on ways at right angles to the mirrors toward which they move, it is evident that each of them will move in such a manner as to be always parallel with one portion of the fixed mirror and at right angles to the other.

Figs. 4 and 5 represent a modified form of suspending the side mirror. In this case I hinge the mirror to the cross-piece a and suspend the same from a rail upon the top of the front and back mirrors, as shown in the draw" ings.

The front and side mirrors are adjusted to a perpendicular, and held locked in such position by means of a channeled nut, O, on the crossmetal rod P, which is hinged at its opposite extrem ity and secured to the mirror, as shown in the drawings. The neck of the said nut, fitting in the recess of the inclined plate Q, serves to hold the same secure.

R R represent rests to afford a sufficient bearing for the mirrors to lie upon and lessen the chance of breaking through carelessness in handling, and also serve as handles to manipulate the cross-pieces.

In cases where I suspend the side mirror from the top I have a supporting-post, S, Fig. 4, so as to receive and hold the side mirror in position while the front mirror is in use.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

. 1. In a carpet-exhibitor, the combination of the independent front and side mirrors, G L, hinged to cross-pieces H M, said cross-pieces being held at right angles to each other and supported on rods J and rails N, so as to admit of their traveling one within the other, in the manner and for the use and purpose specified.

2. The combination, with the fixed mirror of a carpet-exhibitor, of the movable mirrors G L, sliding on ways arranged at right angles to each other, substantially as described.

3. In a carpet-exhibitor, the combination of the cross-pieces H and vertical mirror Gr, hinged to said cross-piece, with the rod P, having one end hinged to the mirror and the other end threaded, grooved nut 0, and slotted plate Q, whereby the mirror may be accurately adjusted in its normal position, then folded down, and again returned to its former position without disturbingthe adjustment, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with the fixed mirrors and frame of a carpet-exhibitor, of the solid table E, on which the samples rest, and the movable mirror Gr, secured to a cross-piece, H, supported above the samples by parallel ways, whereby the movable mirror can be held in any desired position above the samples parallel to one of the fixed mirrors, substantially as described.

ADOLPHUS PETERSON.

Witnesses CHARLES H. NASH, B. J. ROBERTSON. 

